Gamers OK With CoD DLC Prices, Says Treyarch

[Wargamer]

Personally, I think Brotherhood is currently the winner in terms of value.

Animus 1.0:
Contents: 1 new multiplayer game mode, 1 new map.
Price: Free.

Animus 2.0:
Contents: 1 new multiplayer game mode, 1 new map.
Price: Free.

Dusk / Night Maps:
Contents: two reskins of existing maps - Rome and Venice.
Price: Free (earned by the community for racking up an obsurd number of games played and/or kills made).

Animus 3.0:
Contents: 2 new multiplayer modes, 1 new map, four new characters, unlocks for both Limited Edition characters (if you didn't already have them), patch to allow all multiplayer modes to work on all maps (including the ones in the previous DLC packs), a new single-player story arc, two Limited Edition mission unlocks (if you didn't already have them), Limited Edition armour unlock (if you didn't already have it).
Price: £7.99

Yeah... I am going to go ahead and say that is good value from Ubisoft! In particular, I really, really respect them for what they did. The Dusk / Night Map thing was cool, the Animus expansions were great, and then when they finally make us pay for our expansion they not only throw in a big dollop of single-player content, they go back and patch the old stuff AND produce the most awesome game mode I've ever seen.

That is how DLC should be done.

 

[Beat14]

I mustn't be a gamer then, I find that thought pretty amusing considering I blatantly am.

Here I am thinking that I don't have much better things to spend my money on, and yet you will never catch me buying this overpriced junk.

 

[Andronicus]

As my mother always said, something is only worth what you're willing to pay for it. I guess if people want to shell out this much for a few new maps, then more power to them.

Personally, I wouldn't waste my money on the actual game itself, even if it was only costing me AU$10. Still, that's just me...

 

[windlenot]

I honestly hated a lot of the Black Ops maps. As the multiplayer grew thin, I just stopped with it completely. 15 bucks is money I'm using for a good arcade game. I never liked the idea of paying for more maps. It's not at all a game changer. Just hardly a game "extender."

 

[AudienceOfOne1]

It's just testing the market, you put your prices up high and see if people still buy them. If they do then that's fine, if they don't then you lower your price.

Lots of people are still buying them so I don't see the problem - I haven't but then I personally resent paying that amount for what I consider very little.

 

[sephiroth1991]

I'm a gamer and i'm notok with COD DLC prices

However he is right as long as the fan base who buys this stuff i guess the prices are ok for those who love the game, but guys like me who see it as a mediocre pile of toe nail polish, i'm not happy.

 

[pandasaw]

It isn't overpriced to the massive group of people who are buying it.

 

[ThisIsSnake]

No point in arguing with them, they've already proved that the flock of cod sheep will pay £45-50 for the game and £11 for 5 maps. I personally wouldn't and don't but millions of people do.

 

[GonzoGamer]

It's still overpriced and even my wife (the CoD fan of the house) wont buy them.
I'm sure it does sell well though.
CoD has a lot of fanboys and fanboys are notorious suckers.

 

[Jack and Calumon]

The quality of a game is subjective. I didn't enjoy my time with TF2, so I would put it WAY under Call of Duty. You obviously enjoy it, therefore you place it on an equal or higher standing.

PS3 versions of multi-platform titles rarely run as smoothly as they do on Xbox 360, as most developers start on the 360 and port from there. This leads to shitty PS3 versions of multi-platform titles which really shouldn't be used to judge the quality of the games themselves, so much as they should be used to judge the developer/publisher's laziness.

Some devs make their games to the same quality as all platforms. Bioshock, Dead Rising 2, Call of Duty 4 and Modern Warfare 2, Just Cause 2, Bad Company and Arkham asylum to name a few. I will judge a game's quality on how it arrives to the platform I got. I even bought Bayonetta, which despite have longer loading and inferior graphics, felt so incredible I didn't care. I do think the devs were lazy, but I also think they made a high quality game. With Black Ops, I don't have the same feeling.

That said, I have enjoyed games on some platforms and not others. Oblivion for example, I found dull on PS3 yet awesome on PC. Still, this doesn't exclude Black Ops from it's "Monster Closets" of the campaigns, nor does it excuse it of the big priced DLC.

Calumon: ...Are you guys gonna argue all day?

 

[Warrior Irme]

Battlefield Bad Company 2's Vietnam pack gave 5 maps, new weapons and vehicles in a completely different setting for the same price as Call of Duty's map packs. Call of Duty just gives you 5 new maps and says get on with it.

I seem to recall the Battlefield team making games before the Bad Company series... what was that one that came right after 1942's expansions? I could have sworn they just recycled content from Vietnam. Sure they built the maps again in the new engine, but it's still recycled content. I would much rather have 5 new maps, than the same maps I played years ago. If I want to go play Battlefield Vietnam I'll go install it on my computer again.

I think that the cost of the DLC is fair, and the people that complain about the price either think they are entitled to content, or don't play or put the time into the game to warrant the DLC, at which point it's not the cost of the content it's the amount of time you personally would use it for. Where I am a movie ticket is 12 dollars. That's for 2 hours of enjoyment. Should I go and tell all the people that are happy with the price that they are wasting their money? Is it the movie makers' responsibility that the ticket price is so high? The answer is no it's up to the theater to set it's price. One entity makes the content, another set's the price.

 

[Canadish]

Activision wants to remind you all they're the same fun loving company they've always been.
Now hand over your money.

 

[Jack and Calumon]

Wait, where the hell are you getting new games for the price of a map-pack?

Well, there are some old games you can buy in store that have plummeted in price, but downloadable games is what I'm mainly referring to. Scott Pilgrim vs The World is a fantastic game and I've probably put more hours in that than I have Call of Duty because I just have to get all the trophies.

Then lose my PSN account because of a typo when changing my e-mail address. : (

Calumon: You could even buy Monopoly! :O It takes really long to finish...

 

[MarsProbe]

Some people have a serious Call of Duty problem, skipping school or work for it, constantly talking about it, and shunning those who don't find it a good game.

Way to generalise the fuck out of the community.

Saying "some people" doesn't mean you're talking about the community as a whole. Just thought I'd point that out. These people do exist, sadly. I've known of a few people in my times playing COD who have been signed on playing when, by their own admission, they should actually be at work. Still, their choice at the end of the day....

 

[MetalGenocide]

Consumer gaming zombies. Creating a terrible precedent that stimulates, corrupt monetary incentive in the industry since [incert number here] .I almost forgot that, not only consoles had them.

 

[BodomBeachChild]

Well I might mind when I know I'm paying $60 for the base map pack with some shitty story tagged on. Then I gotta pay $40 dollars (total so far) to get the other maps with no extra benefit except differetn shapes with more variety of brown, grey and snow.

 

[harvz]

it always annoys me that they charge so much for dlc with games, think about it, $100-$150AUD (game and varying levels of bonus stuff and one that adds something like another $100) for the game on release day, $15 per dlc, of which there's usually 2 or 3, XBL time so you can use dlc... no wonder people get ps2's, you can get the console, several games and a few controllers for that much. i got my ps2 for $80 with 2 controllers and ethernet back piece and any of my fiends games for $5 a piece.

oh, btw, 200 posts

 

[ryai458]

I have bought every single map pack and game since COD4 but I won't be getting this one because will be coming out a week after the map pack and Brink will be my new multiplayer game, atleast hopefully.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

I'm not ok with the outrageous gas prices, but since I still already bought a car I pay it instead of having to resort to walking or taking a bus...

 

[Nokterne]

I have only bought one of these 15$ map packs (back in Mw2), and will never do so again.